Archive for the 'cinema' Category

Narrative Design

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Heading to Singapore Design Festival.
It takes place Nov. 20 to 30, 2009.
Giving a talk at LASALLE College of the Arts about storytelling and design.
Registration via www.narrative.architempo.net

Narrative Design

Pecha Kucha in connection with Post-Flux

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Brussels Bozar will be the place and the “Palace” for the 10th Pecha Kucha Night, in connection with Post-Flux, looking at digital in all senses and meanings. See you there.
It takes place on Nov. 6, 7 & 8, at Bozar.
Line-up and registration via www.pechakucha.architempo.net
Post-Flux programme via www.post-flux.architempo.net

Pecha Kucha Brussels Post-Flux

Indian Summer 2009

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Sept-Oct-Nov 2009 is active. See you at:

- Energy Efficiency Workshop, by Crosstalks VUB, on Sept. 11, 2009 in Brussels
- Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, by Architempo, during Design September, at Recylart, on Sept. 19, 2009
- Design Brunch, by Architempo, during Design September, at Recylart, on Sept. 20, 2009
- Post-Flux in Bozar Brussels, Nov. 6, 7 and 8, 2009: a forum on interaction, art, design, incl. rights, technologies, writings

Why “Indian Summer” then ? Get in touch

Anima 2009 Brussels Animation Film Festival

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Convening a session at Anima on documentary films using animation as a genre. An emerging genre raising questions about the “right distance” with the subject. We all have heard of the film Waltz with Bashir, multi-awards winner. There are other films and Anima is a place to know more. Session in French/Dutch.

Documentaire et animation – les contradictions apparentes ?
Traditionnellement associée au registre de la fiction, l’animation est aujourd’hui de plus en plus utilisée dans la réalisation de films documentaires. Au cours de cet atelier/conférence organisé par la SACD/Scam nous réfléchirons avec des auteurs et des praticiens de l’animation et du documentaire à la manière dont l’animation s’intègre dans le registre documentaire et comment elle permet de rendre compte de la réalité. Les contradictions apparentes entre animation et documentaire soulèvent en effet des questions qui sont au cœur de toute pratique documentaire : question de l’écriture et de la scénarisation, de la subjectivité, de l’appréhension de la réalité,.. Illustrés par des extraits de films, les intervenants parleront de la manière dont ils cherchent la « juste distance ».
Avec des extraits de films : Zorobabel, Graphoui, La Boîte, Emma De Swaef…
Une séance SACD/Scam, animée par Alok Nandi (auteur, membre du Comité belge de la Scam) avec, entre autres, Arnaud Demuynck (auteur, producteur La Boîte), William Henne (auteur, producteur, Atelier Zorobabel), Luc Jabon (scénariste, président du Comité belge de la SACD), l’Atelier Graphoui, Rob Rombout (documentariste, professeur au RITS et à Sint-Lukas).
Le 27 février à 14 heures

Anima 2009

Publication Announcement : Zero Book Vol. 00

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Initiated on 080808 after the conference ISEA2008 in Singapore, the first publication on Zero, an artist book by Alok b. Nandi and Ajaykumar is released on 081216.

ZERO BOOK Vol. 00
More info about “expositions on zero” on www.zero.fluxtopia.net

Belgian La Deux TV channel - Zoom Arriere

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Zoom Arriere - La Deux - Belgian TV channel rtbf
On Friday 16th May at 22:45, a programme about Indian cinema will be discussed and commented on Belgian La Deux TV channel, with Elodie De Selys. The synopsis and the schedule are listed hereafter, in French.

Bollywood… le Hollywood indien… nom donné à l’industrie cinématographique de Bombay qui, les dernières années, a emballé et impressionné bien des imaginations dans le monde entier.”Zoom arrière” remonte le temps de l’épopée avec un documentaire de la série Neuf Millions de 1974 intitulé “Cinéma indien, Hollywood de la misère” (réalisation Jérôme Equer). Un temps où l’industrie cinématographique en Inde, quoique la plus importante du monde, n’offrait qu’une production commerciale médiocre. Un temps où un cinéma indien de grande qualité commençait, dans les plus grandes difficultés, à percer. Avec un extrait d’un “Carrousel aux images” de mai 1982 dans lequel Sélim Sasson interroge le cinéaste Mrinal Sen sur son film “Un jour comme un autre”. Invité : Alok b. Nandi, auteur et réalisateur indien qui partage son temps entre installations interactives, modalités de narration qui mêlent technologie et espace, scénario et écriture. Auteur d’une biographie en photos du grand cinéaste indien Satyajit Ray.
Scripte: Nathalie Toosdel
Invité/guest: Alok b. Nandi
Réalisateur: Lilian Cornélis
Assistant(e) de production: Carine Despontin
Journaliste présentateur: Elodie De Selys
Producteur executif: Marianne Sluszny
Prochaine diffusion: : 16/05/2008 22:50 (La Deux)
17/05/2008 03:10 (La Deux)
20/05/2008 20:25 (RTBFSat)
20/05/2008 02:12 (RTBFSat)
21/05/2008 14:10 (RTBFSat)
22/05/2008 10:40 (La Deux)
22/05/2008 00:10 (RTBFSat)
25/05/2008 10:30 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 11:22 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 22:45 (RTBFSat)

Pecha Kucha

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Alok Nandi is launching Pecha Kucha Night Brussels.

What does “Pecha Kucha” mean ?
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Pecha Kucha, a Japanese expression for the sound of conversation, is a series of show and tell evenings for designers, architects, artists, creatives, … started by Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo.

Since 2003, groups have sprung up in cities all over the world (over 80 so far) and adopted the Pecha Kucha format: each presenter has 20 slides which are displayed for 20 seconds each.

The idea is to create an environment where creatives from all fields can present (in 6 minutes and 40 seconds) a project carried out, under development, or which they dream to see accomplished. Anyone who has made, or will make, something interesting and would like share with the curious and open minded is welcome.

Radio Chronicles

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

These last seven months, Alok Nandi was giving a weekly radio chronicle for Paris-based radio BFM, in the programme “IndeHebdo”, covering “books and India”, in French: fiction and non-fiction, essays, design, … all genres … One way was to look at narratives and storytelling for systems design, or in other words “experience design” [non ?].
These are accessible via podcast and will be radio-casted in FM this summer.
List of chronicles and podcast access on mahanet.com

Fresh Food, Frozen City

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

“Fresh Food, Frozen City” was one of the topic presented by Alok Nandi, at Doors of Perception in March 2007 in Delhi. It raises many themes connected to innovation, emergence, design, narrative, …
Interventions are in development. Today’s hype jargon would label these City 2.0, Food 2.0.
For more information, you can get in touch with Alok Nandi.

MIT Cambridge, overlooking Boston

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Alok Nandi is speaking on April 27th at MIT, in “Cambridge, overlooking Boston,” in the Media in Transition conference, in the session
Authorship and Network Culture
with
_ Lanfranco Aceti, Displaced Commentaries, Multiple Artifices and Many Authors?
_ Jessica Hammer, Traditional, Collaborative and Mixed Forms of Authorship
_ Alok Nandi, From Hyperfiction to Extrafiction
_ Jon Saklofske, The Necessity of Collaboration, Conversation, Complexty and Conflict in the Constitution of Digital Culture(s)

Moderator: Lanfranco Aceti

More info on the conference and its agenda